@article{23eb2c0364394cc9a5b2aa6fca5bc785,
title = "Sustainable long term scientific data publication: Lessons learned from a prototype Observatory Information System for the Illinois River Basin",
abstract = "In 2005 a prototype Observatory Information System (OIS) was developed for the Illinois River Basin Observatory (IRBO), connected to a federated scientific data network, populated with a representative collection of legacy datasets, and linked to external data streams. The perspective of seven years' time and the disestablishment of the system provide an opportunity to study the system life cycle. We detail best practices for multi-level OIS design for long-term performance, based on a publication-mandatory metadata implementation standard using ISO-19115. These principles balance general users' requirements against the requirements of specific scientific applications, and maximize the system's capacity to deal with legacy and heterogeneous data sources, enhancing long-term sustainability and flexibility for diverse multi-level user groups. These findings are relevant to ongoing developments of networked Scientific Information Systems that are increasingly critical to support and sustain the long-term benefits of modeling and observatory science.",
keywords = "Curation, Cyberinfrastructure, FGDC, Federated, Geoscience, Hydroinformatics, Hydrology, ISO-19115, Long-term, Metadata, Observatory Information System, Redistribution, River basin, Standards, Sustainable, XML",
author = "Ruddell, {Benjamin L.} and Ilya Zaslavsky and David Valentine and Bora Beran and Michael Piasecki and Qingwei Fu and Praveen Kumar",
note = "Funding Information: The authors acknowledge the valuable collaboration of the professionals of the University of Illinois Prairie Research Institute, the USGS, and the NCDC, whose efforts to catalog scientific data are a priceless contribution to long-term science. For their general contributions, we thank the broader CUAHSI-membership teams that were involved in those projects over the past ten years. Wei Yu provided valuable technical assistance and data processing services. Collaboration with the LTER Network Information System team is also recognized. The original programming and data curation work was conducted at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and the San Diego Supercomputing Center during 2004–2006. The original work was supported directly and indirectly by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants 03-26064 and 07-53521, through CUAHSI and its Hydrologic Information System and Water Data Center projects. P.K.'s current {\textquoteleft}DataNet{\textquoteright} work is supported by NSF grant OCI-0940824. I.Z.'s current work {\textquoteleft}EarthCube{\textquoteright} work is supported by NSF grant EAR-1238420 and ICER-1343816 . Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF. ",
year = "2014",
month = apr,
doi = "10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.12.015",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "54",
pages = "73--87",
journal = "Environmental Modelling and Software",
issn = "1364-8152",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
}